Interview Questions

Akash C. - " from typing import List def find_first(array: List[int], num: int) -> int: left = 0 right = len(array) - 1 result = -1 # keep track of leftmost occurence found so far while left <= right: mid = (left + right) // 2 if array[mid] == num: result = mid #Found a potential result right = mid - 1 elif array[mid] < num: left = mid + 1 else: right = mid - 1 return result debug your code"See full answer

Alice Z. - "[I'm working on answering questions more concisely, so to practice, I will type this answer in paragraph form] To clarify the question, I understand there are at least two entry points for Stories - one within Facebook (website, app) and one within Instagram. Would you like for me to focus on the Instagram experience of Instagram Stories? Would you like for me to focus on existing markets or emerging markets, or I could decide based off where I see the greatest opportunity? (Interviewer: focus"See full answer

Jerry D. - "My roles included: ➢ B2B Sales of sanitary ware products to clients ➢ Sourcing of New Businesses and Managing Existing Clients ➢ Responsible for managing sales unit ➢ Developing new sales lead to meet set target. ➢ Project Management Skills: Online Sales Management · Sales Management · Customer Engagement · Sales Operations · Direct Sales · B2B Marketing"See full answer

Glados - "Clarifying questions 1/ Any other products in VC portfolio I need to be aware of - "no" 2/ Market focus? - "no" Started off by stating database marketing 1/ SQL 2/ NoSQL Data models mostly relational Database trends 1/ Vector databases 2/ Growth in cloud / fully managed databases 3/ Multi cloud is important to avoid vendor lock in Ultimately Price/performance is king Competition 1/ Large cloud providers - AWS/GCP/Azure 2/ Legacy databases - Oracle/SQL Server 3/ Niche players - Vitess, Coc"See full answer

Deric C. - "Clarification/Problem What is the timeline that we're working with? (You Choose) What is the criteria for how you'd define an improvement or success? (You Choose) Is there a specific area of the DMV experience that you want me to improve? (No) Are we thinking about this from the perspective of the DMV? (Yes) What is the market that we should be thinking about or focusing on? (US) Business Objective The DMV has a couple of key goals: To help uniquely identify which vehi"See full answer

Sushma R. - "open a social media challenge to share their street view. It will cost 0"See full answer

Sanchit G. - "Vision of Amazon: One stop place for users' buying needs - products and services. Goal of Amazon: Increase wallet share of users or engagement from users. Why services: Services would help achieving this goal, as the users would love using services. And Users need a platform to access services. Market in consideration: India (it is big enough. I am more familiar with this market) Current market landscape: Competition: A couple of marketplaces for services. Similar"See full answer

pmpractice - "I would structure my answer in the following way: What's the situational context? Mission of Uber Making transportation easy by creating a platform for connecting drivers and riders Key market trends: In top tier cities there are players in the food delivery market and the size of the pie is growing fast What would feed into the decision-making? The new platform should be able to connect customers and restaurants. The key things needed to make this platform success"See full answer

Exponent - "This may seem tricky at first, but this is actually an Expansion problem, since we're expanding to a new market. The only difference is this is specifically for small businesses within that market. This is the formula you should use when tackling these types of interview questions: Ask clarifying questions Perform user analysis Market risk analysis State goals Perform channel analysis Prioritize growth channels Strategy Summarize Witho"See full answer

Nishant K. - "This is the reason we PMs get bad name,lol! People are so busy in parroting the framework and answers that they don't even bother to read the question :D "See full answer

Tiffanie K. - "licensing violations for mis-use, integrity of the data (how often is data refreshed), unstructured/garbage data, potential to download virus, mis-interpreted data, unreliability of system (i.e. 3rd party unplanned downtime),"See full answer

Jagan M. - "This system design question is very small compared to other questions like design instagram, twitter, google drive etc... Since the design involves less components the level of detail we have to go in them were deep. I had to explain how to deal with all the NFR for the distributed cache system. Whether it is a push model or a pull model. Hade to do BOE calculations for the database too."See full answer

Srinivas Y. - "I'll try to understand the consequences that lead to the change of Mind , and if i can influence the situation, will try to influence and give confidence with my previous project execution examples and take the lead in driving the project."See full answer

coolkid1 - "wasn't aware of ticketmaster thus asked time from interviewer to glance through the portal, also cross-checked any other value prop from the interviewer that i couldn't infer from website, for ex. providing assurance of confirmed tickets. clarifying questions - who am i? do we want to partner with another player or provide services on our own? any specific goal - monetization, engagement, retention etc. in mind? any particular geo? "See full answer

Srisha K. - "I answered taking Restaurant as a sub product area and built the strategy around that."See full answer

Anonymous Reindeer - "Clarifying Questions: Is it a chain of supermarkets? Or just an individual market? Is the revenue overall or just from one store? What are the reasons for the revenue growth? Pandemic? New buildings around? Other? What does the supermarket sell? Anything specialized? Local goods? Is there an app/website available to order stuff? 10,000 - 50,000 Vision: Be the most customer centric store Goals: Able to reach out to as many users as they can. Increase the user base while keeping th"See full answer